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Wasn't quite sure which section this should go in - thought it might do least damage here!
I've just started watching the 1969
Doctor Who story
The War Games, which featured (briefly) these chaps:
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Horrible, aren't they?
Anyway, given that at the time DW was being made on a budget of about 3d and and a button, I'm guessing these uniforms had been used before - but when? And by who? They seem familiar. Anyone recognise them?
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You can see the original uniforms in the Elizabeth Taylor 'Cleopatra'. The same gear appears in 'Carry on Cleo' so was obviously available in Britain hence to the BBC.
Horrible as they may be it is still a fact that the audience both then and now would instantly know that they are 'Romans'!
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That's what I thought and was going to check when I got home. No need now.
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Well, to be honest, except for the shields, I would have just thought they were shotty attempts at being psuedo romans.....but I've always been picky..... :lol:
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Byron at a guess I would say the shields are actually not part of the original kit!
The gear was also used in the 'Viking Queen'. It usually appears to have been worn by cavalry or troops fighting alongside the legionaries, so I suppose in the interests of academic research you could call it 'Movie Roman Auxiliary Type 'A'', Type 'B' being the archers!
It really is just based on Trajan's column with leather jerkin, bracae and a very literal copy of a helmet viewed in at least one scene.
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I think some of the horsemen in "Fall of the Roman Empre" also had this kit (besides the shields).
Another question: which actor played Romans in these three movies: Julius Caesar (1953), Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963) ?
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Quote:I think some of the horsemen in "Fall of the Roman Empre" also had this kit (besides the shields).
Another question: which actor played Romans in these three movies: Julius Caesar (1953), Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963) ?
John Hoyt
Who was in two different versions of Julius Caesar as well as Caligula though?
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Quote:Which two actors, who much later increased their fame with for their roles in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, played Romans in "I, Claudius" (1976)?
Bernard Hill played Gratus who found Claudius behind the curtain. And John Rhys Davies who played Macro delivered that wonderful speach about Caligula becoming a god. Whenever he moved there was always a loud creak of leather!
Sejanus, Patric Stewart of course, went on to command a Starship, while Kevin McNally went from being the emperors son Castor to a pirate in the Caribbean via the centurionate in Masada!
Sorry I have just watched this on DVD!
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Quote:Reminds me of old-timey American football:
Was that in the days of when the wedge formation was still allowed?
groan :roll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wedge
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